INSPIRED TALKS 127

Self. 6t accepts the other two, but posits a third, the
eternal, the ultimate, the last analysis, the unit, where
there is no further compound. Birth is re-composi-
tion, death is de-composition, and the final analysis is
where Atman is found ; there being no further division
possible, the perdurable is reached.

The whole ocean is present at the back of each
wave, and all manifestations are waves, some very big,
some small; yet all are the ocean in their essence—
the whole ocean—but as waves each is a part. When
the waves are stilled, then all is one—' a spectator
without a spectacle', as Patanjali says. When the
mind is active, the Atman is mixed up with it. The
repetition of old forms in quick succession is memory.

Be unattached. Knowledge is power, and getting
one you get the other. By knowledge you can even
banish the material world. When you can mentally
get rid of one quality after another from any object
until all are gone, you can at will make the object

' -itself disappear from your consciousness.

Those who are ready, advance very quickly and can
become Yogis- in six months. The less developed may
take several years; and anyone, by faithful work and

„ by giving up everything else and devoting himself
solely to practice, can reach the goal in twelve years.